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College in Georgia Sues for Right to Post Billboard in Tennessee

Exactly the sort of scrap you’d expect to see as the college cartel begins to break down. Remember, colleges want you to think there is scarcity. There is not — and the excess capacity will soon start to contract despite state action to prevent it.

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  • 2 days ago
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White Cloud superintendent Barry Seabrook said Thursday allowing the pictures to appear in the yearbook would be contrary to the state’s mandate that public schools’ sex-education curricula be abstinence-based.
My brain. Hurts.
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  • 1 week ago
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Undermining Pell How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind

Pretty much required reading to understand the college money game. 

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  • 1 week ago
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Business leaders pushed pro-APS report despite flaws

Understand that if you belong to a Chamber of Commerce — any Chamber of Commerce — your dues go to fund such deceit.

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  • 1 month ago
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Student Debt almost tripled between 2004 and 2012 and
stands at $966B as of 2012:Q4.
NY Fed ringing the alarm bell over massive borrowing levels for so-called college educations.
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  • 2 months ago
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The college textbook bubble and how the “open educational resources” movement is going up against the textbook cartel

And what feeds the cartel? Billions in endless, uncritical government cash.

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  • 4 months ago
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New Peril for Parents: Their Kids' Student Loans

Recent UNCC grad regrets going to college.

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  • 6 months ago
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Students suspended after seeing topless pic of teacher on school-issued iPad

This is why we can’t have nice things. Poor tech illiterate teacher. She’ll never use iCloud again.

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  • 7 months ago
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This appears to be an isolated incident.
Henry County (Ga.) School district spokesman and professional fuckstick JD Hardin on a sexual assault arrest stemming from an incident involving a girl in a district high school locker room. Surveillance video documented the attack.
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  • 7 months ago
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Concern over enrollment drop at Georgia colleges

Damn skippy. Because word of the scam is getting out. Too many people go to college, not too few. Prices must come down.

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  • 7 months ago
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